{"id":72060,"date":"2011-02-15T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=72060"},"modified":"2011-02-16T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:23:50","slug":"murderarson-trial-set-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=72060","title":{"rendered":"Murder\/Arson Trial in Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=72129\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72129\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/02\/Toronto-Eldermek-Lockridge-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Toronto Eldermek Lockridge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-72129\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGREGG COUNTY &#8212; Jury selection begins next Monday for 34-year-old Toronto Eldermek Lockridge, one of two men accused in a 2009 fatal shooting and arson. Lockridge, of Lakeport, faces up to life in prison for shooting 33-year-old Kelvin Muckleroy. Muckleroy\u2019s body was found inside the torched remains of his Chappell Street home, but investigators determined he was shot before the house fire was set.<\/p>\n<p>Lockridge had initially posted $150,000 bond from the Gregg County Jail in January 2010. He was arrested again four days later on a firearm charge, but posted a $35,000 bond on Feb. 18. He has been in jail since Dec. 7 on his latest charge \u2014 aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for threatening a witness in Muckleroy\u2019s homicide \u2014 authorities said. He remains jailed on $150,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg County District Judge Alfonso Charles in November convicted co-defendent Brandon Quadnell Horne, 31, of Longview, for his part in Muckleroy\u2019s slaying. A sentencing hearing has not been set, and Horne remains in the Gregg County Jail, records showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; Jury selection begins next Monday for 34-year-old Toronto Eldermek Lockridge, one of two men accused in a 2009 fatal shooting and arson. Lockridge, of Lakeport, faces up to life in prison for shooting 33-year-old Kelvin Muckleroy. Muckleroy\u2019s body was found inside the torched remains of his Chappell Street home, but investigators determined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=72060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murder\/Arson Trial in Longview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 06:00:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72060"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72367,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72060\/revisions\/72367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}